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Federal Ethics Commissioner Bernard Shapiro said Friday he will conduct a preliminary inquiry into whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper ran afoul of conflict-of-interest rules in the defection of former Liberal MP David Emerson to the Tories last month.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../National/home

Emerson apologizes . . . . sort of.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...SON02/TPStory/

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